Soul renewing

Today has been a good day. I was able to get my water colours and paint brushes out and try an interesting approach guided by Sarah Fynn. The idea was you do a continuous line drawing of your surroundings and then once you've captured as much as you want down, you then use view finders to select three boxed areas of your line drawing and in each of them use only two colours (which you can blend together). Teamed cadmium yellow with black (don't know the technical name for that :P ), French ultramarine with burnt sienna and then viridian with alorizon crimson. Once you did your squares you then worked with those six colours and made your picture come together with as much or as little abstraction as you liked. Sarah highlighted that you need to work with your white space as that can sap a picture of it's life and vitality and equally you should make your dark areas flow.

Guess what I drew here?

I am enjoying the element of freedom with lock down as I am not tied to a desk all morning and I can be flexible with my time. Tomorrow I have to go back in to school to collect work and I am to assess a new student. We await what government says at the weekend again to see if schools will be reopening or not any time soon.

Heard a story of a lady in South Africa whose father is dying up here in Zim. The borders are closed at the moment so as a desperate last resort, the lady actually walked across the dry Limpopo River. She managed to see her father and made it across.